Lecture by Isamu Noguchi: Art in Public Series, Chicago Sculpture Society. Part 1 of 2.
Identifier
AV_CTE_058_1983_01
Description
Noguchi discusses the results of his Bollingen Foundation travels – visiting ancient sites around the world to determine what sculpture is. Compares to public art in the 1930s - Works Progress Administration - The Letter (164). Museum of Modern Art, New York exhibition, Fourteen Americans (E85) – showed with Mark Motherwell, Arshile Gorky, Saul Steinberg, among others. Noguchi’s proposed book on leisure - how people used sculpture in the past - sculpture in the face of the atomic bomb – visiting Italy, Egypt, Japan, India, Bali – Hassan Fathy – Jawaharlal Nehru (285). Returning to Japan in 1950s – post-war projects – Faculty Room and Garden, Shin Banraisha, Keio University (307); working with Antonin Raymond on Garden for Readers Digest Building (308) – Mitsukoshi Department Store exhibition – Bell Tower for Hiroshima (303A/303B) – Mayor of Hiroshima contacting Noguchi to work with Kenzo Tange; Hiroshima Bridge Railings, Hiroshima, Japan (310); Memorial to the Dead, Hiroshima (400). Lecture continues with slide show presentation on Gardens for UNESCO (428) and Billy Rose Sculpture Garden (504).